Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] myself [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff .
2 ‘ If you had warned me then of the horrors in store , I should have thrown myself under the stage rather than have travelled inside it . ’
3 I 'll try to lose myself on the way into the factory . ’
4 How much better if I could have introduced myself as a fellow poet !
5 ‘ If I 'd know what you were , I 'd have killed myself in the Lubianka . ’
6 If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul .
7 In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways .
8 ‘ I 'm not sure that I 'd care to expose myself to the distortions you wreak upon your subject 's features . ’
9 I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it .
10 yes , oh yes , and erm , going back to somebody asked me earlier , erm , about how it , I feel I have to be able to write about , just about anything , erm , and so if I was given commission to write about any one thing I would have to put myself in a position to , to be able to do it .
11 If I had chosen the North Stand I would have found myself in the middle of those awful drunken , swearing and spitting Ards fans .
12 I would have flogged myself to the death up to the end .
13 I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher .
14 I 'm not sure how long it 'll take me before I can bear to look myself in the mirror again ! ’
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